Product Details

Vendor Details

Acunetix

https://www.acunetix.com

Founded 2005

About Acunetix

Acunetix leads the market in automatic web security testing technology that scans and audits all web applications including HTML5, JavaScript and Single Page Applications. Scans for 4500 vulnerabilities incl. SQLi and XSS among others. Used by Government, Military, Education, Telecommunications, Banking, Finance, and E-Commerce sectors, including many Fortune 500 companies. Acunetix offers a cost-effective, simple, scalable, and high availability solution. Available on Windows, Linux and Online

Comments: The only thing about using the Acunetix is takin it seriously and really use the instructions it gives you. The reporting system sends the instructions of providing complete security to your documents and all you have to do is to follow those instructions.

Pros: The unique thing about the program which makes it distinguish among the many other programs of this type is the security system. Overtime you add a document to your profile the program analyzes the risks of the document to be stolen and creates a kind of the special defense for this particular document.
This way, the program not only provides the user with the incredibly convenient service and saves his or her time, but also prevents from losing money and getting stressed. It is hard to imagine a scanner to be that universal. The Acunetix can easily cope with documents of any format and keeps everything you are working with really secure so that the really important documents or the catching fire ideas are totally under your control, there is no need to worry.

Cons: The only inconvenient thing about the Acunetix is something the people call «Overprotection». Once you are signed in the security system is on and covers not only the documents dowloaded to the program, but it also washes every activity you might possibly do in the Internet and regularly sends you the warning alerts about the unsecured websites.

Vendor Response

by Acunetix on 3/18/2019

Thank you for your review. Your feedback is very important to us.

Simple, but very powerful web vunlerability scanner

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Reviewed on 8/13/2018

IT Security Specialist

Information Technology & Services, 201-500 Employees

Used the Software for:
6-12 months

Reviewer Source

5/5

Overall

5 / 5

Ease of Use

5 / 5

Features & Functionality

5 / 5

Customer Support

4 / 5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:

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Comments: Good thing for a web application pentesting, can give You insight of a present vulnerabilities. Would recommend using in tandem with infrastructure scanner (like Nessus) to create a complete testing solution. Also presence of continous scanning and scheduler could be used for a regular security assesment of Your web applications.

Pros: Ease of use, good customer support, very insightful reports (especially Developer raport), good vulnerability management. Also continous scanning option is an interesting thing for having continous security awareness of Your vulnerability level. Also login sequence recorder is an awesome tool.

Cons: Not a lot of scan options to configure - especially in comparison to Nessus - every check is done in default, You can't choose specifically which test is done in selected scan, only the type of scan (full, high-risk vulnerabilities, xss, sqli, weak passwords, crawl only ) or technology in which the scanned web app is written.

Vendor Response

by Acunetix on 8/20/2018

Thank you for your feedback ¿ we¿re glad that Acuneix is working for you.

Regarding your comment about choosing what to scan for ¿ you can already do this in Acunetix, although the feature is slightly hidden away in Settings > Scan Types. Here you can create your own custom Scan Types, and you will be able to choose which vulnerabilities to check for. When creating a new custom Scan Type, you can filter the vulnerability checks from the top right hand corner of the page.

Remember that you can also easily retest for a specific vulnerability identified in a previous scan.